Improved sail cringle and clew



v UNITEDy STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC CHANDLEROF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED SAIL CRINGLE AND CLEW.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,364', dated January 26, 1864.

To all whon it may concern:

Be it known that I,FREDEmC CHANDLER,

of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex and State o f Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on Cringles and Clews for Sails; and I do hereby declare' that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of y rezereuce marked thereon.

The nature of my invention is a metallic 4 cringle, designed to take the plaeeoi the rope cringle and elew now in use. It is formed of two parts, each part containing cavities on 'the inside for the rrope on the sail to tviu. These parts are put on the edge of the sail, grasping the rope and duclrV between the cringle, the parts held together by screws.,

Inthe accompanyingdrawings, Figure l is a view of` my invention, representing all .parts connected. Fig. 2 is the outside viewof one ,cf the parts. that claspthe rope and sail. Fig.

-3 is the'inside view ot one of the parts. Fig.

et represents the screws that secure the two' parts together;

A represents the upper piece. B `is a viewv of the lower piece. C represents one-half of thecavty,corresponding with the form oft-he worn out.

rope. D is the holes through wnich E is in! serted to unite Aand B together, clasping F, (the snil,) which constitutes the whole, connected in perfect order, as lrepresented i1 Vhat I claim kas my invention, and Ides-ire to secure'by Letters l?ateut, is-

A metallic eringle of two parts for grasping the rope and sail, these parts held together by screws, or rivets, the whole constructed and the. parts thereof arranged substantially as and -for the purpose speciied.

FREDERIC CHANDLER.

In presence of- E. G. BANFIELD, C. F. DANA. 

